I hate ILoveMusic, it's got too many POLLS - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS - RESULTS

I don't think I'd heard the Joan Jett thingy before I saw the ballots. I learned quite a bit as the 'other' ballots were coming in. :)

That's a decent amount of points from three votes, re: "DAW".

More songs should punctuate their final chorus with bells.

ha, you are right about that! I'm firmly pro-bell (Rocket from the Crypt used the hell outta the bell on Scream Dracula Scream to tremendous success imo)

I like Don't Ask Why a lot, but it sounds a little too close to You Lose, which I slightly prefer for some reason. did they ever combine the 2 into a megasong?

does the PTMM reissue have a remastered version or anything to recommend it for the album songs?

You mean apart from the Jimmy Iovine remix of “Can’t Hardly Wait”?

No

In answer to your question, not mine.

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#53
I'll Buy
from Tim (1985)
Score: 73
Votes: 5 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Even I didn’t vote for “Askin’ Me Lies”

About the new PTMM boxset: “More like Pleased To...meh.”

Lol x 2

No comment on "I'll Buy"? Everyone's over with Bob Mehr? :)

Not I.

i love I’ll Buy!!! #17 on my hit parade

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#52
Anywhere's Better Than Here
from Don't Tell a Soul (1989)
Score: 78
Votes: 6 (0)
Youtube: audio track
Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)

Curious as to how much of Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased to Meet Me missed the top 60. The only song I really don’t like from those records is the one that Westerberg didn’t write.

to me it’s punk rock Buddy Holly and I’m all for it

“i’ll buy” that is

I quite like "I Buy" myself. I seem to forget it exists though, out the context of the album. Unfairly, I'd say.

my ballot mostly comes from a place of crushing deeply on paul

god damn job was my #5. the pinnacle of punk mats for me. play a blues song fast and loud. swing it a little. drink a lot. shout out loud some of the most basic complaints of human existence. that song has been a lifelong companion, and not only at times when i did in fact need a god damn job and/or a god damn girl, but it was definitely there for me at those times, of which there have been a few.

In other words, it's almost a LFR version of a Shaggs song.

lovelines is a terrible idea for what do at band rehearsal when you've run out of other ideas, and they commit themselves to that terrible idea way beyond what anyone should. over the course of thirty plus years it's gotten better with every single listen. i adore it.

(xp) haha. it's a shaggs song played in tune.

This is safe space for DTAS enthusiasts. I for one would appreciate treatises on each DTAS track that places.

I might do that! But I didn’t vote for either of its placements so far. I like sad Replacements.

fcc OTM X 2

"Lovelines" is urgent and key 'Mats, for exactly the reasons fcc describes and that's why I prefer the earlier albums to the later ones. Even the throwaways are thrown away in such a deliberate knife-edge balancing act that the those albums are perfectly lethalimperfect.

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#51
Fuck School
from Stink (1982)
Score: 79
Votes: 4 (1)
Youtube: audio track

Posting wude words on the internet in large typefaces FTW.

Their most eloquent chorus, surely.

What's the matter, buddy?

:)

Alright. That's all I had planned just yet. Might post a mere trickle of entries over the weekend but weekend rollouts are generally not terribly successful.

I just remembered that Jim Dickinson produced some Poi Dog stuff #OneThread

perfectly imperfect

would work as a title for a comp of all the stuff that didn't make the other comps. would work for the other comps, too, come to think of it.

The Poi Dog guys said Dickinson told them he could never get a clean take out of the 'Mats because they were too many sheets to the wind so he had to splice a few takes together #OneThread

The two guitar players freaked out when Dickinson played at SXSW with his kids backing him up and Luther Dickinson was on fire. #OT

Summary so far 
                                                             pts    vts   #1s  
51  Fuck School             Stink (June 1982)                 79      4     1
52  Anywhere's Better Than  Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)  78      6     0
53  I'll Buy                Tim (October 1985)                73      5     0
54  Don't Ask Why           SMFTTOTT (August 1981)            70      3     0
55  Love Lines              Hootenanny (April 1983)           65      5     0
56  Nowhere Is My Home      Tim era miscellany                61      4     0
57  Kick Your Door Down     SMFTTOTT (August 1981)            58      5     0
58  God Damn Job            Stink (June 1982)                 58      4     0
59  Asking Me Lies          Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)  58      3     0
60  Buck Hill               Hootenanny (April 1983)           57      6     0

Big respect to whoever voted "fuck school" their #1

51 fuck school
52 fuck here
53 fuck you buying
54 fuck asking why
55 fuck normal ways of finding love
56 fuck homes
57 fuck doors
58 fuck jobs
59 fuck lies
60 buck hill

xp seriously, I wanna know who that is and how much student loan debt they have

That’s a brilliant ranking.

respect

whoever voted it as number one is truly in touch with the spirit of the band

Didn't vote for it because I knew someone else would.

Glad God Damn Job made the cut, it was my no. 31 and hated to cut it.

Red light, red light, cut it!

I didn't vote for "Asking Me Lies," but I actually like it. I used to hate it, but Dead Man's Pop became a good reason to re-evaluate it. The new mix is an improvement - it actually sounds more like the 'Mats proper - but it made a hell of a lot more sense knowing they were big Jackson 5 fans. So the 'Mats do their take of a Jackson 5 number, and I can dig what Westerberg hears in their music because it's pretty much what I hear in a good Jackson 5 number.

I never saw the 'Mats back in the day, but when I saw the "reunion," one of the highlights was when they did "Nowhere Is My Home," and even better a lot of people around me at least knew enough of the words to shout along with the first chorus. Not bad for something that criminally languished as an obscure, out-of-print cut for several decades.

I don't know if the master or multi-track tapes wound up in the river, but it's a shame it only exists as a so-so dub from a vinyl copy. It could really use a better mix to bring out some of the muscle, but it's still a great track, I love it - the guitar riff, the choruses, everything. It really should have made Tim.

if you write the lyric "at a Mexican bar mitzvah for 700 years" then you are good at writing lyrics